Large Quarto, 431 pages, maroon cloth, title-page bumped at fore-edge NOTE: 2D COPY IN 6DOUGL !! Trains fascinated Disney from his childhood. He had built a 1/8th size Carolwood Pacific Railroad to circle his property in Holmby Hills. Inspired, he then considered an adjoining theme park. Mrs. Disney contributed the Foreword, and various private episodes from their life together which eventually resulted in The Magic Kingdom. Broggie's father, Roger, helped Walt to create the railroad.

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Title

WALT DISNEY'S RAILROAD STORY The Small-Scale Fascinations That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom

Publisher

Pentrex ( 1998 ), Pasadena, CA

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

1563420090

ISBN 13

9781563420092

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Second Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

fine

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Hundreds of color and b&w photographs, many of them from private collections and previously unpublished, illustrate how one man's love of railroading shaped our expectations of family entertainment today. The author weaves interview with Mrs. Walt Disney, animators Ward Kimball and Ollie Johnston, and a host of other Disney employees and acquaintances into a narrative of how Disney's history with trains evolved from his early life into the Magic Kingdoms and their authentic steam-powered trains. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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